AVIATION MUSEUM

An aviation museum. air museum, or aerospace museum is a museum exhibiting

the history and artifacts of aviation. In addition to actual, replica or accurate
reproduction aircraft, exhibits can include photographs, maps, models, dioramas,
Clothing and equipment used by aviators.
Present scenario Of museums: - The public in present are likely to visit and
capture the history or the information of Indian air force although the
government had made progress in devolving aviation museums. - Few lack the
motive and entertainment which needed to be offered for public. - Lack of
knowledge towards the heritage and history of the artifacts, modules and
manpower. Aviation museums may display their aircraft only on the ground or fly
some of them. Museums that do not fly their aircraft may have decided not to do
so either because the aircraft are not in condition to fly or because they are
considered too rare or valuable. Museums may fly their aircraft in air shows or
other aviation related events, accepting the risk that flying them entails. Some
museums have sets of periodicals. technical manualsphotographs and personal
archives. These are often made available to aviation researchers for use inwriting
articles or books or to aircraft restoration specialists working on restoring an
aircraft. Statisticsshowing the drop of visitors to museum over the ears on various
types and programs of museumAviation museums vary in size from housing just
one or two aircraft to hundreds. They may be ownedby national, regional or local
governments or be privately owned. Some museums address thehistoryand
artifacts of space exploration as well, illustrating the close association between
aeronautics andastronautics. Many aviation museums concentrate on military or
civil aviation, or on aviation historyof a particular era. such as vioneer aviation or
the succeeding "golden age" between the World Warsaircraft of World War Il or a
specific type of aviation, such as gliding.

PRESENT SCENARIO OF MUSEUMS

The public in present are likely to visit and capture the history or the information
of Indian air forcealthough the government had made progress in devolving
aviation museums.Few lack the motive and entertainment which needed to be
offered for public.Lack of knowledge towards the heritage and history of the
artifacts, modules and manpower
Aviation museums may display their aircraft only on the ground or fly some of
them. Museumsthat do not fly their aircraft may have decided not to do so either
because the aircraft are not incondition to fly or because they are considered too
rare or valuable. Museums may fly their aircraft in air shows or other aviation
related events, accepting the risk that flying them entails. Some museumshave
sets of periodicals, technical manuals, photographs and personal archives. These
are often madeavailable to aviation researchers for use in writing articles or
books or to aircraft restorationspecialists working on restoring an aircraft.

HISTORY OF AVIATION
Aircrafts have been around for a century, but the history of aviation hasextended
over more than 2000 years from the earliest kites and attemptsat tower jumping
to supersonic, and hypersonic flights by powered heavierthan air jetsin mythology
of ancient civilizations, humans attributed the ability to fly totheir deities,
mythical figures and demons. The ability of the supremebeings expressed the
dream, the trial and the urge of humans to flythemselves.In order to fly, they
needed wings. So, humans over and over again tried tocreate wings like the wings
of birds or insects.Leonardo da Vinci 's 15th -century dream of flight found
expressionin several rational but unscientific design, He introduced lighter-than
air.he didn't attempt to construct any of them.

The man who gave us wings and was able to fly in his flyingmachine in the 9th
century was Abbas In Firnas fromAndalusia. Abbas In Firnas made first controlled
flight in human history.His first flight took place in 852. He wrapped himself in a
coatthat was reinforced with wooden pieces and jumped off fromthe minaret of
Cordoba's largest mosque. In this time, IbnFirnas failed in his attempt, but was
lucky enough to be flyinglow. His coat served him as a parachute, and he fell
downslowly landing without any major injuries.For next 23 years, In Firnas
devoted himself to studying birds, the design of their wings and improving
hisflying machine. His new design appears to be a hang-glider which had two sets
of wings to adjust altitude anddirection. The wings were made from eagle feather
and the surface covering from silk. In 875, at the age of65, In Firnas made a
history of flying.He jumped from the Jabal Al-ArusMountain. In this time, his
aircraft worked: he jumped and was able to flylike a bird for at least ten minutes.
When Ibn Firnas became tired of flying, he wanted to land but could notsimply
because his aircraft, in difference from birds, did not have a tail! He had focused
all his energy instudying the mechanics of flying and taking off but neglected the
mechanics of landing. He crashed and brokehis back. But he understood thatbirds
landed on the root of their tail.

Lighter than air vehicles

Effort to analyze the atmosphere from the 17th to 19th centuries ledto
thediscovery of gases such as hydrogen, which in turn led to theinvention of
hydrogen balloons.
 Lighter-than air vehicles, at first used hot air but started usinghydrogen
because it is lighter than air. But hydrogen is highlyexplosive and can be
triggered by just a spark.
 On May 6th, 1937, Hindenburg a hydrogen airship exploded andcrashed
onlanding in New Jersey.
 Nowadays, airships use helium which is an inert gas.

The first flight

 The Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, made the firstsuccessful heavier
than air aircraft, the Wright flyer.
 The first flight was on December 17th, 1903.After theWright brothers first
flight, there was an aviation boom.
 Modern-day aircraft giants, Boeing and Airbus, came into the first plane,
the Wright existence.
Various theories in mechanics by physicists during the sameperiod of time,
notably fluid dynamics and newton's laws ofmotion, led to the foundation of
modern aerodynamics
Experiments with gliders provided the groundwork for heavier than aircraft, and
by the early 20th century advances inengine technology and aerodynamics made
controlled, powered flight possible for the first time

A new era of aviation

With the first flight over, it marked the era ofheavier-than air flight.Till now,
propellers were being used to powerplanes, but the introduction of the jet engine
madeplanes much more efficient and comfortable to fly.
Modern Aviation
 When World War Il ended, passenger transport becamefaster and more
comfortable. Jet planes were immediatelyintroduced.
 The first jet aircraft was the De Havilland Comet.
 As the years went by, jet engines became better and better.
 Now, the present-day giants are Boeing and Airbus. DeHavilland Comet

HISTORY OF INDIAN AVIATION

Indian Aviation Industry is one of the fastest growing airline industries in the
world. The history ofIndian Aviation Industry started in December 1912 with its
first domestic air route between Karachiand Delhi. It was opened by the Indian Air
Services in collaboration with the UK based ImperialAirways as an extension of
London-Karachi flight of the Imperial Airways. Tata Sons Ltd. the firstIndian
airline, started a regular airmail service between Karachi and Madras three years
later withoutanybackingfrom the Indian government.The first blueprint of
aviation proposed in the year 1900 in India during the British rule to convey the
mode of transport.
What is a Museum?
A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects
of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available
for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary
Museums have varying aims ,ranging from serving Researchers and specialists to
serving the general public.
Purpose of museums
The purpose of modern museums is to collect, preserve, interpret, and display
items of artistic, cultural, or scientific significance for the education of the public. -
Learning and access are supposed to be central to the purpose of all museums a
museum might be seen as a way to educate the public about the museum's
mission, such as civil rights or environmentalism.
Museums are storehouses of knowledge, gathering all examples of each
classification of field of knowledge research and display it. Museum purposes vary
from institution to institution. Some favor education over conservation, or vice
versa. For example, in the 1970s, the Canada Science and Technology Museum
favored education over preservation of their objects. They displayed objects as
well as their functions. One exhibit featured a historic printing press that a staff
member used for visitors to create museum memorabilia Some seek to reach a
wide audience, such as a national or state museum, while some museums have
specific audiences, like the LDS Church History Museum or local history
organizations. Generally speaking, museums collect objects of significance that
comply with their mission statement for conservation and display. Although most
museums do not allow physical contact with the associated artifacts, there are
some that are interactive and encourage a more hands-on approach.

History
Early museums began as the private collections of wealthy individuals, families or
institutions of art and rare or curious natural objects and artifacts these were
often displayed in so-called wonder rooms or cabinets of curiosities. The oldest
such museum in evidence was Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum, dating from c. 530 BC
and devoted to Mesopotamian antiquities; it apparently had sufficient traffic as to
warrant labels for the ordered collection, although there is no source for this
information One of these naturalists and collectors was Ulisse Aldrovandi, whose
collection policy of gathering as many objects and facts about them was
"encyclopedic" in nature, reminiscent of that of Pliny, the Roman philosopher and
naturalist. The idea was to consume and collect as much knowledge as possible,
to put everything they collected and everything they knew in these displays.

Public access to these museums was often possible for the "respectable",
especially to private art collections, but at the whim of the owner and his staff.
One way that elite men during this time period gained a higher social status in the
world of elites was by becoming a collector of these curious objects and
displaying them. Many of the items in these collections were new discoveries and
these collectors or naturalists, since many of these people held interest in natural
sciences, were eager to obtain them. By putting their collections in a museum and
on display, they not only got to show their fantastic finds but they also used the
museum as a way to sort and "manage the empirical explosion of materials that
wider dissemination of ancient texts, increased travel, voyages of discovery, and
more systematic forms of communication and exchange had produced. In time,
however, museum philosophy would change and the encyclopedic nature of
information that was so enjoyed by Aldrovandi and his cohorts would be
dismissed as well as "the museums that contained this knowledge." The 18th
century scholars of the Age of Enlightenment saw their ideas of the museum as
superior and based their natural history museums on "organization and
taxonomy" rather than displaying everything in any order after the style of
Aldrovandi.

Modern museums
The first "public" museums were often accessible only by the middle and upper
classes. It could be difficult to gain entrance. When the British Museum opened to
the public in 1759, it was a concern that large crowds could damage the artifacts.
Prospective visitors to the British Museum had to apply in writing for admission,
and small groups were allowed into the galleries each day. The British Museum
became increasingly popular during the 19th century, amongst all age groups and
social classes who visited the British Museum, especially on public holidays. The
Ashmolean Museum, however, founded in 1677 from the personal collection of
Elias Ashmole, was set up in the University of Oxford to be open to the public and
is considered by some to be the first modern public museum In France, the first
public museum was the Louvre Museum in Paris, opened in 1793 during the
French Revolution, which enabled for the first time free access to the former
French royal collections for people of all stations and status. The fabulous art
treasures collected by the French monarchy over centuries were accessible to the
public three days each. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (this is often
called "The Museum Period" or "The Museum Age" )many American museums,
both natural history museums and art museums alike, were founded with the
intention of focusing on the scientific discoveries and artistic developments in
North America.

Aviation museum
An aviation museum, air museum, or aerospace museum is a museum exhibiting
the history and artifacts of aviation. In addition to actual or replica aircraft,
exhibits can include photographs, maps, models, dioramas, clothing and
equipment used by aviators. Aviation museums vary in size from housing just one
or two aircraft to hundreds. They may be owned by national, regional or local
governments or be privately owned. Some museums address the history and
artifacts of space exploration as well, illustrating the close association between
aeronautics and astronautics. Many aviation museums concentrate on military or
civil aviation, or on aviation history of a particular era, such as pioneer aviation or
the succeeding "golden age" between the World Wars, aircraft of World War I or
a specific type of aviation, such as gliding. Aviation museums may display their
aircraft only on the ground or fly some of them. Museums that do not fly their
aircraft may have decided not to do so either because the aircraft are not in
condition to fly or because they are considered too rare or valuable. Museums
may fly their aircraft in air shows or other aviation related events.
ARCHITECTURAL SCOPE OF MUSEUM
Museum architecture not only provides the material-built contexts Within Which
museums exist, it alsocrucially adds meaning to the objects and interactions in
these spaces of encounter. The Initial observation that objects and collections
placed in one context will look, feel and signify differentlywhen placed in another
provides rationale enough to study museum architecture. Similarly. it has
beenfound that the built, designed forms of museums and galleries are bound up
in visitors' experiences incomplex and significant ways; the evidence available
suggest that as visitors move through museumsthey map their experiences
physically, as well as emotionally and imaginatively. Furthermore,
museumprofessionals - the people who occupy these spaces daily - utilize the
architecture of museumsin all kinds of wavs. In the process they shape the
materiality of these sites, adding meaning to differentkinds of relationships and
spaces in all kinds of contingent and unpredictable ways as they go.Architectural
form and elements depicting in the style and spatial configuration in the design of
the museum

ISSUE OF INTEREST
When architects design a building, there are many different types of space and
zoning toselect. The question is what types of zoning and space a museum should
have. Especially, themuseum which display a massive exhibition like aircraft.
 The museum is a place where people explore and learn new thing like art
and history.However. not manypeople these days visit museum anymore.
so how can we attract more people to the museum. Are there ways to
make kids have fun and learn at the same time?
 Museums are a place that display their collection like art and artifact with a
space. That cangive the visitors a wonder experience. An aviation museum
they have to display aircraft andother aviation engineering so their space
will need to be bigger than other museum and whatkind of construction
can support that kind of space for the aviation museum and can give
thevisitor the wonder of experience just like another museum.
  The museum is one of the important places that give us a chance to know
more about history culture and the Indian air history.
Systematic display, it purposes of the display in the museum is just like an
interactive display whereyou use the collection to explain it self instead of having
the visitor to just read it background Therefore, the story Is essential. The display
design of a museum almost determines Exhibit SpaceCreation. just like it said. is
to design a style of display design to make the exhibit space into where avisitor
can enjoy the exhibit. Theatricalized Presentation, they mostly explain about after
you have amuseum as a stage for the display, the display should have a perform
their own role as a exhibit state of the art instruments of the museum.

AIM
To design and Aeronautical Museum at a proposed site in Delhi.

OBJECTIVES
- Develop an interactive network of communication by co-operation and selt-help
between participating volunteer-based aviation museums in India
- Further the preservation of Indian aviation heritage and the ongoing successful
development and operation of existing and future aviation museums.

LITRATURE STUDY
LITERATURE REVIEW
Museum Building Design and Exhibition Layout: patterns of interaction
In conclusion. It should be noted that this conceptual models proposed as a way
of thinking. as a method for reading museum space as a set of formal potentials,
built out of a number of basic concepts In that sense, it might be suggested that
these ideas could be a valuable contribution to the design of museums in that
they provide designers with a better understanding of principles and some
knowledge of systematic consequences of strategic design decisions. More
importantly perhaps, they can also inform the application of new ideas, and
encourage new ways of handling spatial and display consideration.

Architectural Lighting in Museums

Lighting plays a very major role in every day's life. It becomes more important
when it comes to a commercial building specially Museums. In a museum
architectural lighting is very Important, be it through natural lighting conditions
are adjusted preferably through cutouts, skylights whereas artificial lighting is
obtained through different types of light fixtures. It is very important to have an
adequate amount of lighting conditions in a museum. Here is a brief description
on the lighting conditions required in a museum- natural lighting and artificial
lighting.